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Recent news from St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital
The winter 2007 issue features an article on a promising new treatment for childhood eye cancer, while the spring 2007 issue tells the story of one family's battle against inherited retinoblastoma.
You may also listen to a recent "St. Jude Medical Minute" (MP3), in which the chair of our institute, Dr. Barrett Haik, remarks on our outreach efforts in cooperation with St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital to save children's sight in Panama.
UT Hamilton Eye Institute and St. Jude ALSAC representatives
Provide new RetCam™ System to Honduras Pediatric Care CenterDr. Barrett Haik, Dr. Judith Wilimas, Mr. George Velez, Ms. Blanca Phillips, and other international outreach representatives from St. Jude ALSAC traveled to Honduras February 17-21 to install a RetCam™, a retinal diagnostic system that is the standard of care for imaging pediatric retinoblastoma (eye cancer). It is also used extensively in the evaluation of retinopathy of prematurity, a potentially blinding disease that is increasing due to the growing number of surviving preterm infants, and in diagnosing shaken baby syndrome, congenital glaucoma, and most other pediatric eye diseases.
The visiting physicians also trained local Honduras doctors--who are experienced in the treatment of retinoblastoma using laser and cryotherapy--how to use the new equipment as well as the Orbis and Cure4Kids web sites, which will be used for consults.
The goals of this project are to improve the survival rate of children with retinoblastoma in Central America and save the sight of these children by improving the infrastructure for therapy, providing necessary equipment and consultative support, and training physicians. It will also help save families of afflicted children the cost of having to travel to Guatemala for treatment.
Hamilton Eye Institute featured in The Commercial Appeal, January 4, 2007
Hamilton Eye Institute Doctors Among Best in America
Memphis, Tennessee (January 27, 2006) — The 2006 listing of the Best Doctors in America® was released this month, and among the UT physicians on the list were several Hamilton Eye Institute faculty. Drs. Barrett G. Haik, Peter A. Netland, James C. Fleming, Natalie C. Kerr, Edward Chaum, and Matthew Wilson were among those honored.
The Best Doctors in America® database is widely regarded as a high-quality reference guide to the medical profession. The list is based on an exhaustive survey in which more than 35,000 doctors are asked to rate the clinical abilities of their peers. Participants are asked, "If you or a loved one needed a doctor in your specialty, to whom would you refer them?"
An historic telehealth symposium takes place, January 13, 2006
Orbit Center offers expanded patient services for complex eye diseases
Marlo Thomas discusses retinoblastoma on the Today Show, November 25, 2005
Fleming elected president of the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery